Johnny Hughes wrote: > > However, CentOS is designed to be Enterprise and provide support for 7 > years ... what is going to happen when you decide that you no longer > want to support your software? That is right .. I GET TO SUPPORT IT FOR > 7 YEARS. > > Wait and see what happens when some of these "so called" extras packages > move on past the version of python, glibc, php, etc. and fail to compile > on the el4 or el5 target. > > EPEL is a great idea ... but I want to see what happens when it gets > hard. I want to see what drops and what doesn't when the project > upstream moves to requireing php5 or python-2.4; what are the el4 guys > going to do. In CentOS, we try to support what we have and we have made > a 7 year commitment. Any chance of joining forces with Scientific Linux in the add-on department at least to the point of having common repositories in yum (perhaps disabled by default)? Their goals seem similar including the support lifetime and they already have a packaged sun java: https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/5x/features/added -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com